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Nouns (12)

n. unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"

stuff

n. a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

stuff

n. information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"

clobber

n. informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"

material

n. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock

n. senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"

whatchamacallit, whatsis, sundry, sundries

n. miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"

Verbs (25)

fill with a stuffing

v. in cooking

treat with grease

v. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"

fill completely

v. fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"

block, lug, choke up

v. obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"

thrust, shove, squeeze

v. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"

binge, glut, gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, satiate, pig out, scarf out, pok out

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"

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Adjectives (0)

Fuzzynyms (166)

gear, paraphernalia, appurtenances

n. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

garbage, refuse, scraps, food waste

n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

rubbish, trash

n. worthless material that is to be disposed of

ragbag, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, omnium-gatherum

n. a motley assortment of things

falderal, folderol, frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense, trumpery

n. ornamental objects of no great value

gear, paraphernalia, appurtenances

n. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

provisions, stores, supplies

n. a stock or supply of foods

things

n. any movable possession (especially articles of clothing); "she packed her things and left"

cushion, buffer, soften

v. protect from impact; "cushion the blow"

overcrowd

v. crowd together too much

compress, compact, pack together

v. make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"

thrust, shove, squeeze, stuff

v. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"

press, urge, exhort

v. force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies"

press, apply pressure to, apply force to

v. exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"

hike, boost

v. increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents"

advance, bring forward, move forward, bring to front

v. cause to move forward; "Can you move the car seat forward?"

hoist, run up

v. raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"

compress, compact, pack together

v. make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"

herd, crowd, crowd together, herd together, drive together

v. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

squeeze, force, wedge

v. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"

launch, propel with force

v. propel with force; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"

catapult, shoot forth

v. shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort"

project, send off, cast forward, throw forward, send forward

v. throw, send, or cast forward; "project a missile"

thrust, hurl, lunge, hurtle

v. make a thrusting forward movement

press, squeeze, contract, compress, compact, constrict, press together, squeeze together

v. squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

propel, impel, move forward

v. cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"

drive

v. cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"

jump, start, startle, move suddenly

v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"

turn out, expel, eject, exclude, throw out, boot out, kick out, turf out, chuck out

v. put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom"

shoot

v. throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"

shoulder, push with the shoulders

v. push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd"

elbow

v. push one's way with the elbows

hustle

v. cause to move furtively and hurriedly; "The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater"

shoulder, lift onto one's shoulders

v. lift onto one's shoulders

shoulder, carry a burden

v. carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"

overcrowd

v. crowd together too much

stuff, fill completely

v. fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"

boost, shove upward, push upward

v. push or shove upward, as if from below or behind; "The singer had to be boosted onto the stage by a special contraption"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

pall, dull

v. become less interesting or attractive

surfeit, cloy

v. supply or feed to surfeit

foul, choke, clog, back up, choke off, congest, clog up

v. become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

bolt, gobble, eat hastily

v. eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"

down, consume, go through, devour

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

gulp, raven, pig, devour, guttle

v. eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"

wolf, wolf down

v. eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"

fill, satiate, sate, replete

v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

overfeed

v. feed excessively

humor, humour

v. put into a good mood

impregnate, saturate

v. infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"

pall, cloy

v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

flood, swamp, deluge, inundate

v. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

surfeit

v. indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

Synonyms (0)

Antonyms (7)

loosen up, unstuff

v. cause to become unblocked; "The medicine unstuffed my nose in minutes!"

pull, draw, force

v. cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

nibble, munch

v. eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

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